Dennis Jean-Jacques

J.Dennis Jean-Jacques is the Founder and Chief Investment Officer at Ocean Park Investments LP. He is a highly accomplished and seasoned investor, having invested more than $3.2 billion of client capital in U.S. and European public markets across various market cycles over the past 20 years. Before founding Ocean Park, Mr. Jean-Jacques spent a decade as a Managing Director and portfolio manager at alternative platforms, including Verition Fund. Prior to managing low net alternative strategies, he was an investor in the Public Equities Division at Olayan Investment Group and apprenticed at Mutual Shares, focusing on companies undergoing or likely to undergo significant change, dislocations, and other unique special situations with a strategy and asset mix included domestic and foreign equities, arbitrage positions, shareholder activism, and bankruptcy positions. For ten years, Mr. Jean-Jacques served as a board advisor and as an actively engaged shareholder in several campaigns. These included the operational restructuring of a global industrial company, the outright sale of an American appliance manufacturer, and leading the breakup of an S&P 500 conglomerate at the boardroom level. His work has been profiled in Barron's, CNBC, Bloomberg News, and The Wall Street Journal. Mr. Jean-Jacques is also an author on portfolio construction, valuation, and risk management. His published work, The Five Keys to Value Investing, is used at many universities and has been translated into three languages, including Mandarin Chinese. He began his investment career in equity research at Fidelity Investments in 1993. Mr. Jean-Jacques holds a BSSE from Boston University College of Engineering and an MBA from Harvard Business School.